Shown are Colleen Fitzgerald ’14 and other members of the Bates Dance Company.

“This year’s lineup in the ninth annual F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase is a testament to the health and diversity of Maine’s contemporary dance community,” says Carol Dilley, an organizer of the event and director of the Bates College dance program.

F.A.B. takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at the Franco Center, 46 Cedar St. The event is produced in association with Bates by the Franco Center, formerly known as the Franco-American Heritage Center. (“F.A.B.” stands for Franco-American and Bates.)

Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 in cash for students. Tickets are available at the box office from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; by telephone at 207-689-2000; or online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/484808.

Please note that tickets purchased online or over the phone with a credit card or debit card are subject to a convenience fee of 99 cents plus 3.5 percent of the ticket price. This reflects the exact cost to the Franco Center of providing this service. There is no added fee for tickets purchased in person at the box office by cash or check.

F.A.B. aims to bring the mid-Maine dance audience together with artists from around the region. Visually stunning and kinetically mesmerizing, this event energizes Lewiston’s most beautiful auditorium with a kaleidoscope of dance styles.

Performers from as far away as Connecticut and as close as Bates are taking part in the event. With eight new names on the roster joining six F.A.B. veterans, “it seems that the word is out that F.A.B. is a good place to show work,” Dilley notes. “Many of the new artists found us before we could find them.”

Also new this year is a project near and dear to the mission of the Franco Center. “We’re very excited to finally have an homage to the traditional Franco-American dance of this area,” Dilley says.

Cindy Larock, well-known in the Twin Cities and beyond as a folk dance advocate, is working with Bates jazz dance teacher Debi Irons to create a piece integrating jazz and Franco-American. “Through this collaboration we have discovered shared interests, favorite musicians and generations of dancers all enjoying dancing together,” Dilley says.

The evening concludes with a traditional Franco-American “kitchen party,” a celebration with food, dance and music. All are welcome to come downstairs after the show for refreshments and dancing to the live music by members of the Great Falls Community Folk Orchestra.

The Portland company Indiedanceworks is among artists performing at the eighth annual F.A.B. dance showcase. Photograph by Dana Crawford/SALT.

The eighth annual F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase, featuring artists from Lewiston-Auburn, elsewhere in Maine and beyond, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.

Admission is $14 for adults and $12 for seniors and students, availablethrough the FAHC or by calling 207-689-2000.

Named for the community partners presenting the showcase — the Franco-American center and Bates College — F.A.B. brings the Maine community together through dance. A variety of dance genres come together in a memorable evening filled with beauty, tenderness, humor, innovation and familiar forms.

Choreographers from across Maine and New England, including Bates students and faculty, Colby College students, and choreographers from New Hampshire and Connecticut College, will present work.

Other Maine artists on the program come from Androscoggin Dance, the professional training program at the Dance Center in Auburn; the Maine Dance Project; Shove Gently Dance; Indiedanceworks; Tim Rice and Debi Irons; and Range of Motion Arts.

Kira Gavin, a member of the Bates class of 2012, has choreographed a large project for Androscoggin Dance based on the elements, and the F.A.B. program includes “Water” from that project. Gavin has also created a tap piece with dancers from the school.

Coming from Colby College is dance major Delaney McDonough.

New Hampshire choreographer-dancers Patricia Harms and Christine Simes are familiar members of the F.A.B. program. And Shawn Hove of Connecticut College is a regular on the Bates Dance Festival videography and documentation team.

Because of the Feb. 8-9 snowstorm, three Bates arts performances and a folk music festival have been postponed or canceled.

The Feb. 8 Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert has been postponed. L/A Arts, the concert presenter, hopes to reschedule the event for late June-early July. All current ticket holders should retain their tickets until that date; all purchased tickets and ticket winners, will be honored for this date. For more information, please contact 207-782-7228 or mail@laarts.org.

The F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase, a collaboration between Bates and the Franco-American Heritage Center, has been rescheduled for March 2. For more information, call 207-689-2000.

The third annual Bates College Folk Music Festival, planned for Feb. 8 and 9, has been postponed. The Freewill Folk Society hopes to reschedule it for May.

The Feb. 9 performance by the Gerald Clayton Trio has been postponed, with the new date to be announced.

The Portland company Indiedanceworks is among artists performing at the eighth annual F.A.B. dance showcase. Photograph by Dana Crawford/SALT.

NOTE TO READERS: The F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase planned for Friday, Feb. 8, has been rescheduled to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, due to a predicted snowstorm.

The eighth annual F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase, featuring artists from Lewiston-Auburn, elsewhere in Maine and beyond, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.

Admission is $14 for adults and $12 for seniors and students, availablethrough the FAHC or by calling 207-689-2000.

Named for the community partners presenting the showcase — the Franco-American center and Bates College — F.A.B. brings the Maine community together through dance. A variety of dance genres come together in a memorable evening filled with beauty, tenderness, humor, innovation and familiar forms.

Choreographers from across Maine and New England, including Bates students and faculty, Colby College students, and choreographers from New Hampshire and Connecticut College, will present work.

Other Maine artists on the program come from Androscoggin Dance, the professional training program at the Dance Center in Auburn; the Maine Dance Project; Shove Gently Dance; Indiedanceworks; Tim Rice and Debi Irons; and Range of Motion Arts.

Kira Gavin, a member of the Bates class of 2012, has choreographed a large project for Androscoggin Dance based on the elements, and the F.A.B. program includes “Water” from that project. Gavin has also created a tap piece with dancers from the school.

Coming from Colby College is dance major Delaney McDonough.

New Hampshire choreographer-dancers Patricia Harms and Christine Simes are familiar members of the F.A.B. program. And Shawn Hove of Connecticut College is a regular on the Bates Dance Festival videography and documentation team.

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“F.A.B.,” an annual showcase of regional dance produced by the Franco-American Heritage Center in association with Bates, takes place at 7:30pm Friday, March 2, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.

Its title standing for Franco-American plus Bates, “F.A.B.” features choreographers and performers including Bates students and faculty, the Androscoggin Ballet, IndieDanceWorks, Collective Motion, Sonar Dance, 2Roma and performers from Colby and Connecticut colleges. Tickets are $10-$14: Contact or visit boxoffice@francocenter.org, 207-689-2000 or the ticket site.

The Franco-American Heritage Center and Bates College dance program are partnering to offer the sixth annual F.A.B. dance concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at the FAHC, 46 Cedar St.

Tickets are $14 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors. To learn more and order tickets, please visit the center’s website: www.francoamericanheritage.org

F.A.B. (“Franco-American/Bates”) is an ongoing effort to bring the Maine community together through the arts. Choreographers from across Maine and New England submit work for inclusion in the program, which also features Bates student groups.

This year, styles range from contemporary ballet to Japanese butoh, to contemporary modern dance, to jazz. The variety makes for an exciting evening filled with beauty, tenderness, humor, new ideas and familiar forms.

Regional choreographers sharing their work in the historic venue of the FAHC include Rebecca Laber-Smith and Robyn Nast, Zoe Eddy, Wendy E. Getchell, Bates senior Lindsay Reuter, Heather Baur, Annie Kloppenberg, Nell Simpson and Nancy Salmon. Karl Rogers, a member of David Dorfman Dance, offers a solo piece performed by Rachel Boggia, visiting assistant professor of dance at Bates and acting director of the college’s dance program.

The event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates and the generosity of the FAHC.